s9aceturbulance:

meowtalhead:

Saw a video earlier of someone playing a trumpet into jello. Anyway I think riker should visit odo on deep space 9 for no reason in particular

cowboyworf:

friendly reminder for this winter season ❄😓❄

whispsofwind:

Odo and Garak’s friendship is equal parts fascinating and hilarious to me.

Fascinating because on one hand, it’s based on the fact that they both understand what it means to be alienated from your own people, even if you don’t necessarily agree with their values. Odo doesn’t agree with Garak’s attempt to try and go back to the Order, because he himself was offered that choice and refused it. But he understands it, because he wishes with all his heart that he could go home, and it’s only his incredibly strong sense of justice, right and wrong that stops him.

In a way, they mirror each other, because Garak is kept from his people by external circumstances, Odo is kept from his people by internal circumstances. Odo probably feels that he could have been Garak, in a slightly different lifetime.

So this is all very dramatic and emotional and it’s actually a very good basis for an unlikely friendship to blossom, even if their values are so different. They understand each other in ways others wouldn’t.

But on the other hand, it’s a bit funny that after Garak brutally tortured Odo, Odo really went “you look so sad and pathetic in the shop you yourself blew up, we should have breakfast together sometimes so you feel less alone even when the doctor is too busy to argue literature with you, and I’ll even pretend to eat and I’ll show you little shapeshifting tricks”. Garak’s life is so depressing that his victim genuinely thought “you know what he needs company before he blows himself up for real”.

And honestly this brings me to the fact that this station really needs a counselor because every single character would benefit from therapy.

lorenzobane:

Ik Garak is like, a badass assassin and super capable- but my actual favorite thing about him is that he’s just so deeply pathetic. Like PEAK pathetic, man. To the point where he tortures Odo, and Odo comes out of it feeling sorry for him! He offers him a breakfast, and is like ‘we can be friends so you’ll be less lonely.’  

Do you know how pathetic you have to be for your torture victim to come out of that basically being like “yikes! This man’s daddy issues are so crippling. I need to help him.” That is new levels. Galaxy brain choice on the writer’s part.

lgbtrill:

autistic-bashir:

i think that whenever dr. mora gets within 10 feet of odo a giant cartoon anvil should drop from the ceiling and flatten him into a pancake